Reading lines in from a file?

Ok, i have a file that contains thousands of lines, but i only need
the last part of the line, after the last '\' , so far what i have been
doing is reading the line in using getline, and using a for loop to
count back thru the line to the first '\' character, then using a for
loop to count forward to paste each character by character into a
new file. Thsi works fine except some lines it prints werid
characters. My question is can you think of a better way to do
this. At the present rate, it will do a 500KB text file in less then a
second, so the loops and the single character at a time process
doesn't seem to slow it down so i can live with it if need be, but i
was just interested in a alternative.

the line would basically look as follows :

\folder\folder\folder\filename.ext

One solution is std::getline(). Do a reverse find for \.

Kuphryn

im not a c/c++ expert, the limited amounts of c++ i am fimilar with
was self taught, no outside help. I hardly ever use forum/boards
to post for help, occasionally ill look at them and supply any info i
know. Anyways my point to that jibberish is, i would not be
fimiliar at this time how to do a reverse? unless you meant strrev(char *),
which i dont think you mean.

if you are storing your getline as a string, you can use the command:

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int last_position = stringname.rfind("\");

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This will give you the position of the last slash mark, if you call the same command again, it will find the next to last position.

In case you are unfamiliar, positions are as follows:

0 1 2 3 4
H E L L O

Here are some other helpful things in case you need them:

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int last_position = stringname.rfind("\");
int length_of_path = stringname.length() - (last_position + 1);
string path = stringname.substr(last_position + 1, length_of_path);

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\ is one of those special characters you need to use an escape sequence for, i.e. use \\ instead of just \.

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Originally Posted by quizkiwi

Here are some other helpful things in case you need them:

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int last_position = stringname.rfind("\");
int length_of_path = stringname.length() - (last_position + 1);
string path = stringname.substr(last_position + 1, length_of_path);

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Or just simply:

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string path = stringname.substr(stringname.rfind("\\")+1);

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ok thank you that was very helpful, one question though im use
char [] to store my getline, because getline wouldnt accept string
variables, i shoudl have thought of using string, because i
was aware of those commands, however what im nto aware of
is the best way to read into a string, if i remember correctly,
read() will do it, but it reads so many characters and since im not
sure of each lines lenght at run time, it may read to far or to short.
with that said my question would be, can read() take a delimiter
or is there a better way.

The std::getline that kuphryn referred to works for strings. Instead of:

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char input[256];
std::cin.getline(input, 256);

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you use:

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std::string input;
std::getline(std::cin, input);

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Notice the difference in that the first one (that you are using) is a member function of the cin istream, and the second one is a global function that you pass cin into.

ah, thank you so much